Ingrid Roth

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Ingrid Roth Creating Creating art art for for me me me is is to to open open up up my my heart. heart. An An image image says says more more than than a a thousand thousand words. words. It It is is all all about about surrendering surrendering to to the the creative creative process process and and entering entering into into a a dialogue dialogue with with the the motif motif motif I I am am am working working on. on. Artist and expressive arts therapist, born in 1958 in Strömsund, the province of Jämtland. The road to a profession is not always straight, as anyone who explores Ingrid Roth’s progression towards establishment and recognition as an artist would attest. At the age of eighteen, she left her native Jämtland, filled with a spirit of adventure and intending to take up academic studies. Her first stop was Uppsala but the world was calling. Ingrid Roth packed her bags and travelled through Europe. She observed and absorbed people’s way of life, she worked where she could while saving up her money, and then she moved on. She lived in England for a period of time. Then she married and lived in the Netherlands a few years; the young couple then returned to Sweden where they eventually went their separate ways and Ingrid settled in Uppsala. In the mid-eighties Ingrid had an accident resulting in a serious back and pelvic injury, which more or less confined her to bed for a number of years. Dark thoughts kept haunting her. Is this how things are meant to be? Will I remain an invalid for the rest of my life? Such corrosive thoughts could easily wear down the courage of someone with a spirit less rebellious and less life-affirming than that of Ingrid Roth. Great changes and upheavals are often set in motion by lesser events. Ingrid Roth kept reading and absorbing inspiration from her articles about Frida Kahlo, with which Rosa Stjärnhimmel - Stars in a Pink Sky 90 x 90 cm she had papered her walls. She realised that a sick-bed does not equal incapacitation. She began to experiment with water-colours but soon switched to acrylic paint which harmonised better with her innate feeling for colours. She found a kindred spirit in Paul Klee whose multicoloured facets became a source of inspiration to her. She started experimenting with larger surfaces of paint and gradually found her own personal style. Her optimism, the efforts of her doctors and the gentle rehabilitation programme eventually gave results and allowed Ingrid to leave the sick-bed. She moved back to Jämtland and in 1990 she enrolled on a course in painting and graphic narrative art. She also qualified as a therapist of expressive arts. Today Ingrid Roth is a living example that anything is possible, as long as you believe in what you do. Her ability to enthuse course participants, her expertise and her unwavering commitment have lately been noticed by schools and by representatives for town and county councils who have hired her again and again. Her artistry has also been eulogised by critics as well as by the public. Ingrid Roth is a colourful naïvist who has created ‘Trasmania’, a place and a people who know nothing of hate or dissension. In her art, colours and joy dominate. The
sun shines over the young and their games with the same intensity as it shines over the laundry hung up to dry between the houses. On a table, a welcoming cup of coffee is waiting for someone and the colourful houses lean on and support each other. ‘Enjoy the here and now’, Ingrid Roth says. ‘Transform the monotony of day-to-day life into something valuable. Indulge in a moment of relaxation even if it’s only to have a cup of coffee’. ‘The perspectives are insane – but somehow they manage to be just right’, an enthusiastic art critic writes about one Grön Lycka - Joyful Green 90 x 110 cm Förlovningsparty - The Engagement 90 x 110 cm of Ingrid Roth’s exhibitions. He continues: ‘[Her paintings] always focus on the good things in life. Ingrid Roth paints her houses, her people, her animals and her landscapes with playful ease. Though the perspectives can at times be utterly insane, the whole is always exactly right.’ Christer B. Jarlås Länstidningen Östersund Translated into English by Marie Tåqvist MA in Literary Translation, The University of East Anglia
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Page 5 and 6: Solen strålar över ungdomars lek
Page 7 and 8: Ingrid Roth är verksam i Jämtland
Page 9 and 10: Grön Bråttom - Green Hurry 38 x 4
Page 11 and 12: Rosa Tulpankväll - Evening in Pink
Page 13 and 14: Rosa Lycka - Pink Delight 295 x 235
Page 15 and 16: Kvällsbad - The Evening Bath 288 x

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